Your Assignment: Your instructor asks you to write a paper about "Health Effects of Using Public Transportation." You are encouraged to use "peer reviewed" or "scholarly" articles to support your report. A good place to begin is at the CSN Library website using one of the research databases, Academic Search Premier.

1. Go to the CSN College Library Services website: www.csn.edu/library

2. Click Find Articles and Research Information.

3. Click Academic Search Premier.

4. Given the topic of your paper, you may want to formulate your keywords as shown below. Press Search.

5. Limiting your results: an effective way to find what you need.

You are encouraged to use peer-reviewed or scholarly articles to support your paper. Checking the "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" will limit your results. Since some research databases, such as Academic Search Premier, may only be partial full-text or provide only the citations, you may also want to limit your search to full-text articles only. Checking "Full Text" will limit your results. Press Search.

6. Click on the title of the article to read a summary of the article; click on the link to full-text to go straight to the full-text.

7. To print the PDF full text of the article, press the print icon shown below.

BEST PRACTICE! Do not go to File > Print to print articles from research databases. Use the print options that the research databases provide. When using research databases, take a moment to explore all the options that they provide.

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